Alfred Sturtevant

Alfred Sturtevant (21 November 1891-5 April 1970) was an American genetecist who constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1913.

Biography
Alfred Sturtevant was born in Jacksonville, Illinois in 1891 and grew upn in Mobile, Alabama, and he enrolled at Columbia University in 1908. He worked with Thomas Hunt Morgan at his Fly Room, where he opened larvae to observe the highly visible fly chromosomes. He managed to locate the genes on the chromosomes, and began to create the first linkage maps. Sturtevant later worked with Morgan to get his doctorate, and he enjoyed a long and prosperous career in genetics until his death in 1970.